Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 12.57pm ET17 57 Just two questions left before recess, Hensarling advises.
When MPs return from recess, they will scrutinise the government's plans for the green investment bank (GIB) under the enterprise and regulatory reform bill.
By that time, the Senate may have passed the short-term extension to the Patriot Act powers, but members of the House of Representatives will have left Washington for its Memorial Day recess and will not be able to vote on it until they return on 1 June.
Corker said the bill will be put to a committee vote on 14 April, giving the Obama administration the two-week Easter recess to persuade Democrats not to support the legislation.
Paul spent a total of 10 hours and 30 minutes on Wednesday calling for an end to the National Security Agency's dragnet surveillance tactics, eating up one of just three legislative days remaining before lawmakers go on recess till 1 June – the same day that key provisions of the Patriot Act are due to expire.
Senate leader Mitch McConnell had been hoping to get unanimous consent to push through an extension of the controversial Patriot Act for either one or two weeks to allow senators to return home for Memorial Day recess.
While the claimed legal authority for the program, Section 215 of the Patriot Act, expires on 1 June, the memo notes that the next 90-day order from a secret surveillance court necessary to gather the bulk data must be filed by Friday – after the House of Representatives, which has already voted overwhelmingly to stop the program, is in recess.
But as parliament prepares to return for four weeks of sittings before the long winter recess, details are emerging about the impact of some of its central policies.
Corker – who was not among the 47 Republican signatories of a controversial open letter last month – said his bill would be put to a committee vote on 14 April, giving the Obama administration the two-week Easter recess to persuade Democrats not to support it.
Parliament is going to prorogue (go into recess at the end of the session) shortly, and it will not meet until the Queen's Speech on Wednesday 4 June.
Republican leadership was hoping for a short-term extension of the Patriot Act which would push debate into early June, once the Senate returns from its Memorial Day recess.
